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New JSimE article released: Information and Process Modeling for Simulation – Part I: Objects and Events

  • 1.  New JSimE article released: Information and Process Modeling for Simulation – Part I: Objects and Events

    Posted 05-24-2018 10:21
    The Journal of Simulation Engineering (JSimE) has just published its latest article:

    G. Wagner (2018), Information and Process Modeling for Simulation – Part I: Objects and Events, https://articles.jsime.org/1/1

    Abstract
    In simulation engineering, a system model mainly consists of an information model describing a system's state structure and a process model describing its dynamics. In the fields of Information Systems and Software Engineering, there are widely used standards such as the Class Diagrams of the Unified Modeling Language (UML) for making information models, and the Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) for making process models. This tutorial presents a general Object Event Modeling (OEM) approach for Discrete Event Simulation modeling using UML class diagrams and BPMN-based process diagrams at all three levels of model-driven simulation engineering: for making conceptual domain models, for making platform-independent simulation design models, and for making platform-specific, executable simulation models. In this approach, object and event types are modeled as special categories of UML classes, random variables are modeled as a special category of UML operations constrained to comply with a specific probability distribution, and queues are modeled as ordered association ends, while event rules are modeled both as BPMN-based process diagrams and pseudo-code.

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    The peer-reviewed and peer-published Journal of Simulation Engineering (JSimE) is dedicated to the accessible dissemination of research results in simulation engineering to the global modeling and simulation community by providing True Open Access, which means that the journal is not only accessible to readers, but also to authors who do not have to pay excessive publication charges. It also means that research
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    Gerd Wagner
    Professor
    Brandenburg University of Technology
    Cottbus
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